see The Economist - they are doing great. subscription based (and not cheap), extremely high quality, multi-media (print, app, web, audio).
free news? it'll all be run by comedy organizations
free news? it'll all be run by comedy organizations
These not only provide a diversified revenue stream, but help (with apparently decreasing success) keep the publication from sliding into the oblivion of clickbait irrelevance, most especially the bespoke service, EIU, the Economist Inteligence Unit:
In general, business-oriented or public-interest publications (Financial Times, Wall Street Journal (somewhat), Craines, Mother Jones, ProPublica) do better than straight "family publication" productions. The subscribers will put up with less bogosity.
I'd done an analysis of mentions of any of the Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinkers, vs. an arbitrarily selected string "Kim Kardashian", back in 2015. The ranking of mainstream and alternative publications by "FP:KK ratio" was illuminating. (Also various online / social media sites.)
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